Take-Two Interactive, which owns the publishing rights to the game, filed a lawsuit in 2009 against 3D Realms over their failure to finish development. Statements by the company indicated that the project was due to go gold soon with pictures of final development. In May 2009, 3D Realms was downsized for financial reasons, resulting in the loss of the game's development team. Originally in development under 3D Realms, director George Broussard, one of the creators of the original Duke Nukem game, first announced the title's development in April 1997, and promotional information for the game was released in one form or another from 1997 to 2008.Īfter repeatedly announcing and deferring release dates, 3D Realms announced in 2001 that it would be released simply 'when it's done'. I have no knowledge who leaked this.Intended to be groundbreaking, Duke Nukem Forever has become infamous in the video games industry and become synonymous with vaporware due to its severely-protracted development schedule the game has been in development since 1997. Just a smattering of barely populated test levels. No, I’m not really interested in talking about it or retreading a painful past. One of the game’s directors, George Broussard, took to Twitter to confirm that what’s here does indeed look legit but that fans should be aware it’s just a “smattering of barely populated test levels.” Those of us who’ve been gaming long enough will recall that the early version of Duke Nukem Forever was scrapped and the game didn’t reappear until 2011 as a whole new title that was completely torn to shreds by critics and fans alike – mostly because it was aggressively shitty.Īccording to x0r, what’s present in the leaked content from the original version represents almost every chapter of the cancelled game in “some form”, though much of it is just empty test stages and placeholders with little gameplay. A playable build of the famously-canned 2001 version of Duke Nukem Forever has seemingly leaked and could soon be available for all to download and check out.Īs reported on fansite Duke4, a 4chan user known as ‘x0r’ has obtained the build and has been posting screenshot and video evidence as well as claiming that they’ll leak the files (including the editor and full source code) to the wider internet in June.

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